Theo Slade

Andy Kaufman’s Full Discography

May 29, 2020

  All Together

  Categorized

      Standup Clubs & TV Specials

      TV Sketches & Interviews

      Theatre, Films & Sitcoms

      Bibliography & Other Media

      Biographical

Every bit of media of Andy Kaufman out there sorted into chronological order and categorised.

With Andy Kaufman, it’s important to be able to understand clips in relation to each other. For example, in a Fridays TV Special he hosted, he did a sketch at the end where he got into a big fight with cast over not wanting to read the lines. Then the next week, seemingly forced by the director sitting next to him, had to give an apology.

A guy called Joe did most of the leg work in archiving the brunt of the catalogue. I created a spreadsheet where I synced up a table of television appearences from Kaufman’s wikipedia and a list of life events found on a fan site, then scoured the interwebs for any extra clips, seperated some compilations out and renamed some for clarity. There are still many tv apperances missing and dates of stand up club nights possibly recorded, but neither anywhere easily findable.

For a a much longer list of life events with videos mixed in click here. Plus any suggestions or fixes are super welcome.

First I’ll show it categorised into 4 blocks, then at the end I’ll show it all together. All links are easily downloadable.

All Together

Categorized

Standup Clubs & TV Specials

Date Title
Date Unknown Night at the Improv – The Improv Club
Date Unknown Having a sit down meal on stage + more – The Improv Club
Date Unknown Heckler – The Improv Club
July 1-7, 1974 Earliest Recorded Standup – Max’s Kansas City
February – March 1977 Foreign Man, Bongos & Tony Clifton – The Improv
April 26, 1979 Andy Kaufman Plays Carnegie Hall
August 28, 1979 First TV Special – NBC
November 27-28, 1979 The Real Andy Kaufman (Compilation DVD)
March 1, 1980 Uncle Andy’s Funhouse Pilot – ABC’s Buckshot
January 23, 1981 Hosts The Midnight Special – The Midnight Special
February 20, 1981 Hosts Fridays Part 1 – Fridays
February 27, 1981 Hosts Fridays Part 2 (Fight & Forced Apology Sketches) – Fridays
August 19, 1982 Hosts ‘Catch a Rising Star’s 10th Anniversary’ – Catch a Rising Star
1983 I’m from Hollywood
July 15, 1983 The Andy Kaufman Show (2nd TV Special) – WTTW Chicago (PBS)
February 12, 1984 Laundry On Stage + The Bongos – Superstars of Comedy Salute the Improv
1984 Andy Kaufmans Wake At The Improv

TV Sketches & Interviews

Date Title
June, 1972 First Television Appearance Performing Elvis – Kennedy At Night
1975 Dramatic Reading (Audition) – SNL
October 11, 1975 Mighty Mouse – SNL
October 25, 1975 Sings ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’ – SNL
November 8, 1975 Foreign Man (Bad Jokes & Cry Bongos) – SNL
January 17, 1976 Foreign Man – The Dating Game
1976? Childrens songs + Which charachter is the real Andy? – Monty Hall’s Variety Hour
February 28, 1976 Old MacDonald – SNL
September 20, 1976 Fonzie Look A Like Contest – Van Dyke and Company
1976 Old Macdonald Had A Farm – Van Dyke & Company
1976 Pop Goes The Weasel – Van Dyke & Company
September 20, 1976 to December 30, 1976 Compilation – Van Dyke & Company
January 21, 1977 Foreign Man + Mighty Mouse – Monty Hall’s Variety Hour
March 4, 1977 ‘I Trusted You’ song – The Midnight Special
February 20, 1978 Interview with guest host Steve Martin – The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
March 11, 1978 Reads “The Great Gatsby” – SNL
March 14, 1978 Takes all the time away from ‘a scientists’ interview – Bananaz
April 11, 1978 Bongos – The Mike Douglas Show
November 21, 1978 Foreign Man Bad Jokes, Elvis, Interview & Bongos – The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
April 3, 1979 Adam & Eve – Cher & Other Fantasies (NBC Special)
September 19, 1979 Tony Clifton – Dinah!
October 20, 1979 First wrestling match – SNL
October 27, 1979 Wrestling Call Out – SNL
December 6, 1979 Elvis – A Johnny Cash Christmas Special
December 22, 1979 With manager Buddy Rogers, wrestles more women – SNL
October 13th, 1980 Jokes Sob Story Part 1 – The Letterman Show
October 15th, 1980 Jokes Sob Story Part 2 – The Letterman Show
April 16, 1981 Madness & Chaos – The Slycraft Hour
September 18, 1981 Born again Christian – Fridays
October 11, 1981 World Inter-Gender champion – Playboy Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City
December 11, 1981 Discussing levitation & his film Heartbeeps – The Merv Griffin Show
February 18, 1982 – November 17, 1983 Every Letterman Appearence – Late Night with David Letterman
February 18, 1982 – November 17, 1983 The Idiot – Late Night with David Letterman
May 15, 1982 Discusses Lawler wrestling match – SNL
June 25, 1982 Orson Welles Interview – The Merv Griffin Show
November 20, 1982 Andy is voted off the show – SNL
January 22, 1983 Andy thanks viewers who voted for him in vain – SNL
May 26, 1983 Long Interview – Up Close with Tom Cottle
November 7, 1983 Doctor Sketch – The Rodney Dangerfield Special: I Can’t Take It No More
January 26, 1984 Final Public Appearances – The Top

Theatre, Films & Sitcoms

Date Title
1969 College Theatre Performance
March 30, 1977 Stick Around Pilot
1977 God Told Me To
1978–83 Taxi – Taxi
May 22 through June 11, 1979 In God We Tru$t
June 6, 1980 Heartbeeps
August 9, 1982 My Breakfast With Blassie

Bibliography & Other Media

Date Title
1986 Encouragement to Comedian Girlfriend – Phone Recording (1973?)
1977-1979 Andy and his Grandmother
1985 Special Intro by Andy Kaufman – Karma Karma by Robert Foreman (Released 1985)
1999 The Huey Williams Story by Andy Kaufman
2000 God…and Other Plays by Andy Kaufman
2000 Poetry and Stories by Andy Kaufman

Biographical

Date Title
1998 Remembering Andy Kaufman
1999 Man on the Moon
2012 Marc Maron & Bob Zmuda